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  • We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.

    People   Want   Favour  
    Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com
  • I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  • We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.

    Christian   Taken   Self  
  • Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.

  • I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours.

    Tired   Thinking   People  
  • Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

    Honesty   Rogues   Fool  
  • Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.

    Order   Two   Atheism  
  • The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

  • "But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law in their favor, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well?

    Sex   Men   Thinking  
    "The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men".
  • High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.

    Class   Focus   Favour  
  • We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.

    Team   Thinking   Play  
  • My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

    Views   Giving   Favour  
  • I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this view, Schrödinger's set-up will give rise to in two future branches of reality, one with a live cat, and one with a dead cat - and the talk of '50% chances' just indicates that the two branches are both equally real futures of the cat that originally entered the box.

    Real   Cat   Views  
    "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
  • We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.

  • Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

    Robin Lane Fox (2004). “Alexander The Great”, Penguin Group USA
  • It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

    Done   Favour   Ethics  
  • Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

    Alan Cumming (2014). “Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir”, p.32, Canongate Books
  • In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

    Teaching   Kids   Favour  
    "Susan Cain: 'Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.
  • Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

    Soul   Favors   Rooms  
    Joanna Baillie (1806). “A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy”, p.98
  • I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis - I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model isn't working.

    War   Kids   Hands  
  • It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

    Mistake   Men   Favour  
  • My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.

  • Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

    Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

  • I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

    Party   People   Favour  
  • Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

    Love   Clouds   Light  
  • The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.

    Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

    Football   Games   Favour  
  • Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.

    Country   Apology   Men  
  • I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

    Philip Massinger, John Ford (1840). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.189
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